I have found with experience, that just turning off the stupid windows fire 
wall takes allot of the aggrevation out of port forwarding and dealing with 
blocked programs and addresses etc.
Not too many people these days run straight into an old school cable or DSl 
modem without some kind of router involved...which has a firewall built into 
it.
Use the hardware firewall in the router/modem.  They are far easier to 
configure and are so much less irritating to work with.
Everytime I get a new router, it does take some time and trial and error to 
get the 3 echolink ports configured, but patients and trying several 
different methods always yields the result I want.
Also, when I signed up for echolink, I simply scanned my license on my own 
scanner, sent it in as a .mpg file, and there was no issue at all.
And after all that, I hardly ever use echolink...there are always audio 
problems that I don't like, people who shouldn't be licensed and a whole lot 
of petty crap that I have no patients for.
Occasionally someone manages to get echolink sounding good, but that is 
rare.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Brown" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: an echolink nightmare!


> Hi Howard,
> Thanks for the info!
> I did read the help which I did find, on the echo link web site!
> I did read that in Windows xp service pack 2, that port forwarding needs =
> to be done, but, with service pack 3, I was told I didn't need to do any =
> forwarding. I did, go into the windows fire wall, and saw echo link is =
> an exception, and it's checked, so that means windows will allow it.
> So, who knows.
> If everything works out tonight on the balcony, with this antenna and =
> mfj 949E antenna tuner, and I sure hope it does, then all this echo link =
> talk will not even matter anyway, which would be nice for me.
> So, we'll see what happens tonight!
> Trippy, ac8s
>  ----- Original Message -----=20
>  From: Howard Kaufman=20
>  To: [log in to unmask]
>  Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 4:28 AM
>  Subject: Re: an echolink nightmare!
>
>
>  Your modem may have a self contained router.
>  You have to open the router, go to advanced settings, and open the =
> ports.
>  Their is a link to the instructions on the web page, just like it =
> says.
>  When I look at what you sent, I see a router address, with =
> information, so=20
>  it is reasonable to assume, that you do have a router.